When companies and governments issue bonds, they do so with a specific maturity date attached to the bond. For example, a five-year corporate bond will pay interest for five years before it’s ...

Callable bonds are a type of bond that the issuer can “call” or redeem before the maturity date. The specifics vary from bond to bond, but callable bonds always have one thing in common — the issuer ...

Discover how negative convexity affects bond prices, key risks, and how to calculate it. Learn why mortgage and callable ...

Refunded bonds secure investor principal by holding the cash amount aside via the original issuer, providing low-risk ...

For example, to analyze a refunding proposal, we need to determine the cost of the outstanding and the refunding bonds on a present-value basis. Earlier this year, I showed that tax-exempt and taxable ...